Which is why you'll see more production houses moving over to PDF. Quark has been the hidden evil empire -- much worse than Microsoft if you're working in print production. PDF is increasingly accepted and at least is a published format with plenty of software that can read it. XPress on the other hand...
That may be true, but even if you're fine with it some of us aren't.
You raise an interesting point, however, about what happens when the "recyclers" just sell the monitor to a third world country. Anyone know of a certification program for recyclers that guarantees that they do the work and do it properly?
...it's the MST2K-ization. Imagine user-created commentary spin-offs appearing the morning after TV shows run. The mocking of Hollywood's lousy dialog would quickly get under their all too thin skin.
Of course, that's probably the only way that you could get me to watch "Friends"...
On toll roads such as the New Jersey Turnpike or the New York Thruway, the government could be giving away tickets very easily if chose to do so. Just divide the distance bewteen two tool booths by the difference between the time stamps for entering and exiting the toll road. Voila. Miles per hour -- and an instant gauge of who's speeding. (Warranted, a quick stop at the rest stop would foil it.)
Now, there have been private rental firms that have used GPS to determine how fast you're going. But to the best of my knowledge, no government has yet issued tickets with this simplistic routine. Why? No one would stand for it.
Shattered Windows? Nick Lowe's "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" comes to mind -- perhaps it could be RedHat's first theme if/when it finally creates TV ads:
I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when I'm lonely I need the noises of destruction When there's nothing new Oh nothing new, sound of breaking glass
I love the sound of breaking glass Deep into the night I love the sound of its condition Flying all around Oh all around, sound of breaking glass
Ummm...just where exactly are you going to put this equipment in the already cramped Manhattan stations? Sure, cost of re-building the trains is big. But space is a serious consideration, too, and something that costs dearly in Gotham.
Their accountant was...Arthur Andersen LLP. As Gomer Pile would say: surprise, surprise.
If it had been one of the other "Final Four" accouting firms, maybe it would have been the beginning of something huge. Expect a "what do you expect?" while they move on to the next scandal.
Hit users where it hurts. Add a line item to their annual review: Does the employee back up company data regularly? No? Dock 'em a few hundred (thousand?) dollars on their raise.
Sure it's cruel, but you don't think it'll get results?
It's AOL itself that turned to sand. TW's continuing pretty much as it did before the merger -- unspectacular beheamoth that it was/is.
Steve Case made out like a bandit on this. He cashed out at the peak, exchanging his AOL shares for something with reasonably good value. Let's see...would he rather be holding AOL/TW stock that's down 60% or AOL stock that's down something like the 90%+ of other dot-com highflyers?
Seems like we're just getting back to the free flowing capital of the Edwardian age. This isn't new.
Someday, someone's going to write an interesting history comparing the chaotic pre-WWI times (anarchist bombings, the first stirrings of nationalist sentiment in the 3rd world, etc.) with our own post-Cold War crises.
(d) habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess; (e) abuse of narcotics, drugs, or other controlled substances
So far so good. I can probably pass the habitual use and abuse tests.
(f) membership or sponsorship in organizations which adversely affect the confidence of the public in the integrity of, or reflecting unfavorably in a public forum on, any ISS Partner, Partner State or Cooperating Agency.
I doubt that installing Linux on the city's computers would make the top 10 (or 20 or 30) list of any of your potential constituents. Voters usually vote because they're concerned about issues that impact them. (That could be directly, as in taxes or hazardous waste, or emotionally, as in caring for the children or the poor.)
So, for instance, you could present installation of Linux as one means of reducing the cost of a bloated city government budget. (Assuming, that is, that the city govt's budget *is* bloated and that C'ville's citizens are concerned about it.) You'll probably find it more difficult to link to feeding the hungry or cleaning toxic wastes, except that it might free money for those needs.
At best, OS should be a tactic that a politician can mention as a means to an end.
a) the phone company will cut the price of DSL to retain customers and
b) the phone company will cut the price of local phone service even more aggressively to retain its cash cow customers.
Competition is a wonderful thing. The local phone companies have a lot of room to make pricing changes as they've mostly amoritized the cost of most of their infrastructure. Wonder how Wall Street will react to AOL/TW's moves after the first Verizon price cut in Manhattan? Or the first complaints about AOL/TW's local phone service?
As a journalist, I've seen editors similarly change my copy to create an incorrect inference. When I worked as an editor, I saw fellow editors make similar shoddy errors. It might be laziness. It might be too many distractions. But the common thread is always that someone is doing something without thinking about its implications.
For those of you who work as programmers, think of it as someone butchering your code by adding a "fix" that creates a bug. It springs from the same source: inattention to details.
Considering the political implications here, however, this is almost as egregious as blindly adding a bug to a nuclear power plant's software that brings on a meltdown.
That lovely Ziff banter. That, we're oh so with it, insouciance. Any surprise that the light tone reflects the complete inability to make its tests mirror the real world?
Couldn't they at least have included something like QuickBooks in the app mix? QB capability is one of those real-world things that is keeping several small businesses from moving to Linux. As opposed to Word and Excel, for which there are plenty of worthy replacements.
Anybody here ever watch Dr. Strangelove? The whole premise of Kubrick's work was that some numb-nut in the Air Force took control of an airforce base to enforce his ideology by provoking a war with the Soviet Union. Not withstanding the fictional nature of that work, accidental launch is a serious problem.
"Uh, gee, Mr. President. We didn't mean to launch that nuke. Can we just work this out instead of you nuking us back?"
Universities fatten up so much on these deals that I doubt they'll never agree to move away from the slop pit. The schools get all kinds of goodies (think of all those shiny new labs that they like to show parents).
Professors get their egos stroked by working with these firms, in addition to improving their post-academic job prospects. They gladly participate in this research because it will win praise from the university president. ("Atta boy, Bob!")
After they've bitten the apple, is there any going back?
Sorry, that's not the way contracts work. If you sign, you're liable. The "it wasn't in big, bold, underlined type" excuse won't cut it in a court of law.
As I noted, it's crappy customer service but it's perfectly legal.
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Which is why you'll see more production houses moving over to PDF. Quark has been the hidden evil empire -- much worse than Microsoft if you're working in print production. PDF is increasingly accepted and at least is a published format with plenty of software that can read it. XPress on the other hand...
That may be true, but even if you're fine with it some of us aren't.
You raise an interesting point, however, about what happens when the "recyclers" just sell the monitor to a third world country. Anyone know of a certification program for recyclers that guarantees that they do the work and do it properly?
...it's the MST2K-ization. Imagine user-created commentary spin-offs appearing the morning after TV shows run. The mocking of Hollywood's lousy dialog would quickly get under their all too thin skin.
Of course, that's probably the only way that you could get me to watch "Friends"...
On toll roads such as the New Jersey Turnpike or the New York Thruway, the government could be giving away tickets very easily if chose to do so. Just divide the distance bewteen two tool booths by the difference between the time stamps for entering and exiting the toll road. Voila. Miles per hour -- and an instant gauge of who's speeding. (Warranted, a quick stop at the rest stop would foil it.)
Now, there have been private rental firms that have used GPS to determine how fast you're going. But to the best of my knowledge, no government has yet issued tickets with this simplistic routine. Why? No one would stand for it.
Shattered Windows? Nick Lowe's "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" comes to mind -- perhaps it could be RedHat's first theme if/when it finally creates TV ads:
I love the sound of breaking glass
Especially when I'm lonely
I need the noises of destruction
When there's nothing new
Oh nothing new, sound of breaking glass
I love the sound of breaking glass
Deep into the night
I love the sound of its condition
Flying all around
Oh all around, sound of breaking glass
Let's also hope there's something to muffle that 600 Hz whine (which is close to the peak of human hearing sensitivity).
The real question is, how close is it to the hearing sensitivity of rats? Now that could be useful even if it doesn't conserve any energy.
Ummm...just where exactly are you going to put this equipment in the already cramped Manhattan stations? Sure, cost of re-building the trains is big. But space is a serious consideration, too, and something that costs dearly in Gotham.
The Register calling the author of "Hackers" a hack is pretty ridiculous. Or was I just missing that the typically wry British sense of humor?
Their accountant was...Arthur Andersen LLP. As Gomer Pile would say: surprise, surprise.
If it had been one of the other "Final Four" accouting firms, maybe it would have been the beginning of something huge. Expect a "what do you expect?" while they move on to the next scandal.
Hit users where it hurts. Add a line item to their annual review: Does the employee back up company data regularly? No? Dock 'em a few hundred (thousand?) dollars on their raise.
Sure it's cruel, but you don't think it'll get results?
It's AOL itself that turned to sand. TW's continuing pretty much as it did before the merger -- unspectacular beheamoth that it was/is.
Steve Case made out like a bandit on this. He cashed out at the peak, exchanging his AOL shares for something with reasonably good value. Let's see...would he rather be holding AOL/TW stock that's down 60% or AOL stock that's down something like the 90%+ of other dot-com highflyers?
Seems like we're just getting back to the free flowing capital of the Edwardian age. This isn't new.
Someday, someone's going to write an interesting history comparing the chaotic pre-WWI times (anarchist bombings, the first stirrings of nationalist sentiment in the 3rd world, etc.) with our own post-Cold War crises.
Glad to see that Yahoo has learned from Steve Case's example. I wrote about this in 1999 when AOL pulled this one
(d) habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess; (e) abuse of narcotics, drugs, or other controlled substances
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So far so good. I can probably pass the habitual use and abuse tests.
(f) membership or sponsorship in organizations which adversely affect the confidence of the public in the integrity of, or reflecting unfavorably in a public forum on, any ISS Partner, Partner State or Cooperating Agency.
Damn. I belong to
I doubt that installing Linux on the city's computers would make the top 10 (or 20 or 30) list of any of your potential constituents. Voters usually vote because they're concerned about issues that impact them. (That could be directly, as in taxes or hazardous waste, or emotionally, as in caring for the children or the poor.)
So, for instance, you could present installation of Linux as one means of reducing the cost of a bloated city government budget. (Assuming, that is, that the city govt's budget *is* bloated and that C'ville's citizens are concerned about it.) You'll probably find it more difficult to link to feeding the hungry or cleaning toxic wastes, except that it might free money for those needs.
At best, OS should be a tactic that a politician can mention as a means to an end.
Not to mention that:
a) the phone company will cut the price of DSL to retain customers and
b) the phone company will cut the price of local phone service even more aggressively to retain its cash cow customers.
Competition is a wonderful thing. The local phone companies have a lot of room to make pricing changes as they've mostly amoritized the cost of most of their infrastructure. Wonder how Wall Street will react to AOL/TW's moves after the first Verizon price cut in Manhattan? Or the first complaints about AOL/TW's local phone service?
Good suggestions -- both from pitcrew and hughk. Many thanks.
Except it doesn't seem to have an import filter for, say, QuickBooks. Help get me off QB and I'm all ears.
Please Lord. Don't let us find the skeleton of Jar Jar Binks.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011127/ts/space_ planet_atmosphere_dc_2.html
As a journalist, I've seen editors similarly change my copy to create an incorrect inference. When I worked as an editor, I saw fellow editors make similar shoddy errors. It might be laziness. It might be too many distractions. But the common thread is always that someone is doing something without thinking about its implications.
For those of you who work as programmers, think of it as someone butchering your code by adding a "fix" that creates a bug. It springs from the same source: inattention to details.
Considering the political implications here, however, this is almost as egregious as blindly adding a bug to a nuclear power plant's software that brings on a meltdown.
- Chris
That lovely Ziff banter. That, we're oh so with it, insouciance. Any surprise that the light tone reflects the complete inability to make its tests mirror the real world?
Couldn't they at least have included something like QuickBooks in the app mix? QB capability is one of those real-world things that is keeping several small businesses from moving to Linux. As opposed to Word and Excel, for which there are plenty of worthy replacements.
Exactly.
Anybody here ever watch Dr. Strangelove? The whole premise of Kubrick's work was that some numb-nut in the Air Force took control of an airforce base to enforce his ideology by provoking a war with the Soviet Union. Not withstanding the fictional nature of that work, accidental launch is a serious problem.
"Uh, gee, Mr. President. We didn't mean to launch that nuke. Can we just work this out instead of you nuking us back?"
Universities fatten up so much on these deals that I doubt they'll never agree to move away from the slop pit. The schools get all kinds of goodies (think of all those shiny new labs that they like to show parents).
Professors get their egos stroked by working with these firms, in addition to improving their post-academic job prospects. They gladly participate in this research because it will win praise from the university president. ("Atta boy, Bob!")
After they've bitten the apple, is there any going back?
Sorry, that's not the way contracts work. If you sign, you're liable. The "it wasn't in big, bold, underlined type" excuse won't cut it in a court of law.
As I noted, it's crappy customer service but it's perfectly legal.